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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Saul Steinberg: Illuminations
04/06/2007 - 06/24/2007
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Saul Steinberg (1914–1999), whose magical drawings lit up the pages and covers of The New Yorker magazine for six decades, is the focus of a major new retrospective organized by the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. Saul Steinberg: Illuminations, the first full-scale review of Steinberg’s career, features more than 100 drawings, collages and sculptural assemblages from the 1930s to the 1990s by the artist who is regarded by many as one of the greatest draftsmen of the modern era and as a comic genius. The exhibition includes never-before-seen sketches from the Saul Steinberg Papers at Yale University, rarely seen works from The Saul Steinberg Foundation and works from private collections. The presentation at the Smithsonian American Art Museum includes a selection of 18 sketches from the museum’s permanent collection that Steinberg made in 1967 while he was an artist-in-residence at the Smithsonian. These works are on view in Washington, D.C. only.
Pictured Above:

Saul Steinberg, I Do, I Have, I Am, Ink, marker pens, ballpoint pen, pencil, crayon, gouache, watercolor, and collage on paper, The Saul Steinberg Foundation, New York © The Saul Steinberg Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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